Work sucks, this I know...and so does my ex-bf, and not in the fun way either
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So, the ex has blocked me...likely for not responding to him asking me to see a movie. Like, dude, we are no longer together and I'm not interested in trying again. Having you stay with me for a week reminded me about why I didn't try to get you back and why I was planning on breaking up with you anyway. But thank you for leaving your potatoes and onions behind, I guess. Considering you never did throw any money my way like you said you were going to.
I'm working overnights finally, and so far it hasn't been too bad. Well, other than the fact that the woman who is nominally my boss for my section is sort of useless, and one of the ladies who sometimes works a few hours in the section is pretty clueless despite having been there longer than I have. I knew we were behind in planograms, but it was insane just how far behind we were...even though it's not like they were being done correctly in the first place!
Actually, there's a lot that hasn't been done correctly in my department going back several months, before I even started there. This is made evident every time I do an expiry date sweep on a section I haven't yet touched. I shouldn't be finding antihistames that expired four months ago tucked in the back of the shelf, or sunscreen. Or anything that expires, for that matter. Oh, and then there's the can of spray deodorant that I found that is over a year old and had the old product name/label on it! Or going through and finding discontinued items that should have been removed from the shelves over six months ago.
Last night I managed to complete a planogram that I started Sunday night - it should have been finished by the day-shift person over the two days I was off. Obviously, it wasn't. I had gotten one set of shelves done, and figured that the next five would have gotten done. Nope. Not at all, and there was a flat-deck of new stock to go onto the shelves still. I would have gotten to these the night before, but Wednesday nights are devoted to putting sale tags up in my department - if there aren't a lot, then I can get to putting stock out or working on a planogram, but there it is. Ugh. This morning I told the assistant store manager that it shouldn't have taken so long to get the planogram done, especially as it was supposed to be implemented by the end of last Monday, and that there is another outstanding planogram to be done that I can't do most of due to the fact that it's in locked cabinets that I don't have keys for...and that the person they have helping in that department (the department manager is currently out sick, go figure) doesn't know how to do a planogram, as was evidenced by what I walked into last night after telling her that morning what needed to be done. So, obviously I can't get her to do the one planogram that is pretty much impossible for me to do unless I can get approval to go in while the pharmacy is open (they have the keys for those locked cabinets).
And there are three more planograms that are supposed to be done by Monday. I'm off tonight, so this means that my next two shifts are going to be taken up with doing those three planograms. One of which is supposed to take at least seven hours! So much for getting stock out, right? The best time do the planograms is at night when there are no customers trying to walk through the aisle you're working in - especially if it's one entire side of an aisle you're dealing with, complete with moving products from one set of shelves to another! Shelves can be stocked pretty much whenever, and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to do stock like that. But for some folks planograms and printing tags are entirely beyond them. Such as the missus yesterday - she's been there longer than me, but is primarily a cashier. And it shows.
Then to top it all off, there is a guy who is shift lead when the Replenishment manager isn't there overnight - she needs days off too, so there has to be somebody covering her days off. Too bad it's a guy that doesn't understand that I am responsible only for one department, that I do not deal with sorting pallets that have mostly grocery and general merchandise on them - the rest of the guys know to put my department's stuff on a pallet as they go and then bring it to me or put it into the warehouse. It is also not my job to work in the other departments either - I was hired for health and beauty only, and the only other department I am to help with (if I get all my work in my department done before the end of my shift) is our natural value department. That's it, that's all. But this dude, oh my gods, doesn't listen no matter how many times he's been told that I am not to work in the other departments, and that when my department manager is out that her work falls onto me because I'm the only other one that knows how to do it and I'm the only other one with codes for the work that needs to be done in my department anyway...which reminds me, I need to ask about getting a key for the printer office for those nights when I have planograms to do and my department manager hasn't gotten around to getting them printed off for me. I do know that one of the overnight guys has a key to the printer office because he deals primarily with general merchandise and the planograms for that department - he offered to let me use it last night, but I figured I had enough on my plate with what was already printed out.
The replenishment manager was in this morning to pick up her roomie and some groceries, so I told her what happened with dude last night. She told me that he's been told several times that I've got my section to deal with, that I'm not to be asked/told by him to deal with a different department, and to leave me alone to do my work unless I specifically need to ask him for something. She also said that he figures he's God when he's 'in charge' and that he can tell people to do whatever he thinks they should be doing, even though he's been told time and again that he needs to leave us the fuck alone. I told her that one of these days he's going to get in my face and I'll give it right back to him. This is the same dude who apparently has been told that if the replenishment manager leaves or steps down that he's going to step up into that role...I'll be letting the store manager know that he is to be told to stay the fuck away from me or I'll be looking to transfer away from having to deal with him at all. And they really don't want that because since I started my department has been looking pretty damn good for the first time in entirely too long.
For the most part I love my job. Working overnights is where I do my best, and not having somebody attempting to micromanage me is a bonus. I know what my job is so I don't need somebody trying to take me away from it, somebody who doesn't even know what I'm responsible for in the first place. Hell, dude didn't even know that I knew how to do a planogram, so when I told him what I had to do tonight he was shocked. It's not like they're all that difficult, just time consuming and frustrating when you have to move shit around, change the number of facings, and find a home for the extra stock that you can't fit onto the shelves anymore. But I manage it quite nicely.
I know that my department manager has been talking about retiring, and she's told me that at this point I'm the only one that is trained in enough of the job responsibilities to be able to do her job. I can tell you that I don't actually WANT the job, but if I got it, I'd be running that department a hell of a lot different than how it's been for entirely too long. For one, anybody that would be coming over to help would know how to do a damn planogram.
I've got a friend who wants to work at my store, and I honestly think she'd be a good fit in my department. I've worked with her at my last two jobs so I know what her work ethic is like, and I know that she can work unsupervised and get her shit done. I doubt she'd get along with the department manager but it's not like any of us would really work with her once we're done training - I don't see the department manager unless she comes in before I finish my shift, and she texts or calls me if something specific needs to be done. Not that I really need that because I know what my duties are and can do them without prompting, and I have been catching stuff that she hasn't bothered getting to during the day.
About the department manager - she is a self-admitted butterfly brain. It does not take much for her to get sidetracked, and it took us almost two weeks longer than it should have in order to get me trained in everything I'm supposed to be doing because she'd forget what we were supposed to be doing that day. Or we'd start putting out an order and not get to whatever I was supposed to be trained in. And there have been days where I've come in after her and there's been pretty much nothing done. Time sensitive order come in that needs to get put out on the shelf? Yeah, not even touched until I get there. And it's one where several items have to go into the locked cabinets, so I'll put those items into a basket with a note and store it in the warehouse on top of a pallet of department stock/overstock...and it will still be there two days later despite her having worked on one or both of those days. So I'll leave another, larger, note on top of the basket. Ugh.
In a way, I'd probably welcome getting the department manager job because stuff would get done. I've already printed out the instructions for the three planograms due out this coming Monday and I just need to print out the tags for them - I told the assistant store manager as much, just as I also told him that the one planogram I didn't get to must be done during the hours the pharmacy is open due to it involving the locked cabinets, and that it's already a week overdue. Seriously, these planograms are supposed to be implemented on or before the due date or we fail our audits, which is not supposed to happen. Yet it obviously does.
Oh well, I'll just have to see what I'll walk into for my next shift. I hope it's not going to be as big of a shit show as I've been dealing with this week. If it is, I'll be making a special point of going in to speak with the store manager to get things sorted out so I don't lose what's left of my mind. And if the department manager really doesn't want to do the work she's supposed to be doing, well, she should just get the fuck out instead of making my job miserable.
Anyhow, it's probably time for me to head to bed, but I'm not quite tired enough yet. I may end up venturing out a bit later, but I think for now I may tackled the disaster that is my bedroom. I'd like to eventually get the dresser out of there so the kid can have it, and pull my desk out into the living room. But to do that I need to remove all the stuff that is in the way. I'll likely have a bunch of clothing to donate before the end of today!
So, the ex has blocked me...likely for not responding to him asking me to see a movie. Like, dude, we are no longer together and I'm not interested in trying again. Having you stay with me for a week reminded me about why I didn't try to get you back and why I was planning on breaking up with you anyway. But thank you for leaving your potatoes and onions behind, I guess. Considering you never did throw any money my way like you said you were going to.
I'm working overnights finally, and so far it hasn't been too bad. Well, other than the fact that the woman who is nominally my boss for my section is sort of useless, and one of the ladies who sometimes works a few hours in the section is pretty clueless despite having been there longer than I have. I knew we were behind in planograms, but it was insane just how far behind we were...even though it's not like they were being done correctly in the first place!
Actually, there's a lot that hasn't been done correctly in my department going back several months, before I even started there. This is made evident every time I do an expiry date sweep on a section I haven't yet touched. I shouldn't be finding antihistames that expired four months ago tucked in the back of the shelf, or sunscreen. Or anything that expires, for that matter. Oh, and then there's the can of spray deodorant that I found that is over a year old and had the old product name/label on it! Or going through and finding discontinued items that should have been removed from the shelves over six months ago.
Last night I managed to complete a planogram that I started Sunday night - it should have been finished by the day-shift person over the two days I was off. Obviously, it wasn't. I had gotten one set of shelves done, and figured that the next five would have gotten done. Nope. Not at all, and there was a flat-deck of new stock to go onto the shelves still. I would have gotten to these the night before, but Wednesday nights are devoted to putting sale tags up in my department - if there aren't a lot, then I can get to putting stock out or working on a planogram, but there it is. Ugh. This morning I told the assistant store manager that it shouldn't have taken so long to get the planogram done, especially as it was supposed to be implemented by the end of last Monday, and that there is another outstanding planogram to be done that I can't do most of due to the fact that it's in locked cabinets that I don't have keys for...and that the person they have helping in that department (the department manager is currently out sick, go figure) doesn't know how to do a planogram, as was evidenced by what I walked into last night after telling her that morning what needed to be done. So, obviously I can't get her to do the one planogram that is pretty much impossible for me to do unless I can get approval to go in while the pharmacy is open (they have the keys for those locked cabinets).
And there are three more planograms that are supposed to be done by Monday. I'm off tonight, so this means that my next two shifts are going to be taken up with doing those three planograms. One of which is supposed to take at least seven hours! So much for getting stock out, right? The best time do the planograms is at night when there are no customers trying to walk through the aisle you're working in - especially if it's one entire side of an aisle you're dealing with, complete with moving products from one set of shelves to another! Shelves can be stocked pretty much whenever, and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to do stock like that. But for some folks planograms and printing tags are entirely beyond them. Such as the missus yesterday - she's been there longer than me, but is primarily a cashier. And it shows.
Then to top it all off, there is a guy who is shift lead when the Replenishment manager isn't there overnight - she needs days off too, so there has to be somebody covering her days off. Too bad it's a guy that doesn't understand that I am responsible only for one department, that I do not deal with sorting pallets that have mostly grocery and general merchandise on them - the rest of the guys know to put my department's stuff on a pallet as they go and then bring it to me or put it into the warehouse. It is also not my job to work in the other departments either - I was hired for health and beauty only, and the only other department I am to help with (if I get all my work in my department done before the end of my shift) is our natural value department. That's it, that's all. But this dude, oh my gods, doesn't listen no matter how many times he's been told that I am not to work in the other departments, and that when my department manager is out that her work falls onto me because I'm the only other one that knows how to do it and I'm the only other one with codes for the work that needs to be done in my department anyway...which reminds me, I need to ask about getting a key for the printer office for those nights when I have planograms to do and my department manager hasn't gotten around to getting them printed off for me. I do know that one of the overnight guys has a key to the printer office because he deals primarily with general merchandise and the planograms for that department - he offered to let me use it last night, but I figured I had enough on my plate with what was already printed out.
The replenishment manager was in this morning to pick up her roomie and some groceries, so I told her what happened with dude last night. She told me that he's been told several times that I've got my section to deal with, that I'm not to be asked/told by him to deal with a different department, and to leave me alone to do my work unless I specifically need to ask him for something. She also said that he figures he's God when he's 'in charge' and that he can tell people to do whatever he thinks they should be doing, even though he's been told time and again that he needs to leave us the fuck alone. I told her that one of these days he's going to get in my face and I'll give it right back to him. This is the same dude who apparently has been told that if the replenishment manager leaves or steps down that he's going to step up into that role...I'll be letting the store manager know that he is to be told to stay the fuck away from me or I'll be looking to transfer away from having to deal with him at all. And they really don't want that because since I started my department has been looking pretty damn good for the first time in entirely too long.
For the most part I love my job. Working overnights is where I do my best, and not having somebody attempting to micromanage me is a bonus. I know what my job is so I don't need somebody trying to take me away from it, somebody who doesn't even know what I'm responsible for in the first place. Hell, dude didn't even know that I knew how to do a planogram, so when I told him what I had to do tonight he was shocked. It's not like they're all that difficult, just time consuming and frustrating when you have to move shit around, change the number of facings, and find a home for the extra stock that you can't fit onto the shelves anymore. But I manage it quite nicely.
I know that my department manager has been talking about retiring, and she's told me that at this point I'm the only one that is trained in enough of the job responsibilities to be able to do her job. I can tell you that I don't actually WANT the job, but if I got it, I'd be running that department a hell of a lot different than how it's been for entirely too long. For one, anybody that would be coming over to help would know how to do a damn planogram.
I've got a friend who wants to work at my store, and I honestly think she'd be a good fit in my department. I've worked with her at my last two jobs so I know what her work ethic is like, and I know that she can work unsupervised and get her shit done. I doubt she'd get along with the department manager but it's not like any of us would really work with her once we're done training - I don't see the department manager unless she comes in before I finish my shift, and she texts or calls me if something specific needs to be done. Not that I really need that because I know what my duties are and can do them without prompting, and I have been catching stuff that she hasn't bothered getting to during the day.
About the department manager - she is a self-admitted butterfly brain. It does not take much for her to get sidetracked, and it took us almost two weeks longer than it should have in order to get me trained in everything I'm supposed to be doing because she'd forget what we were supposed to be doing that day. Or we'd start putting out an order and not get to whatever I was supposed to be trained in. And there have been days where I've come in after her and there's been pretty much nothing done. Time sensitive order come in that needs to get put out on the shelf? Yeah, not even touched until I get there. And it's one where several items have to go into the locked cabinets, so I'll put those items into a basket with a note and store it in the warehouse on top of a pallet of department stock/overstock...and it will still be there two days later despite her having worked on one or both of those days. So I'll leave another, larger, note on top of the basket. Ugh.
In a way, I'd probably welcome getting the department manager job because stuff would get done. I've already printed out the instructions for the three planograms due out this coming Monday and I just need to print out the tags for them - I told the assistant store manager as much, just as I also told him that the one planogram I didn't get to must be done during the hours the pharmacy is open due to it involving the locked cabinets, and that it's already a week overdue. Seriously, these planograms are supposed to be implemented on or before the due date or we fail our audits, which is not supposed to happen. Yet it obviously does.
Oh well, I'll just have to see what I'll walk into for my next shift. I hope it's not going to be as big of a shit show as I've been dealing with this week. If it is, I'll be making a special point of going in to speak with the store manager to get things sorted out so I don't lose what's left of my mind. And if the department manager really doesn't want to do the work she's supposed to be doing, well, she should just get the fuck out instead of making my job miserable.
Anyhow, it's probably time for me to head to bed, but I'm not quite tired enough yet. I may end up venturing out a bit later, but I think for now I may tackled the disaster that is my bedroom. I'd like to eventually get the dresser out of there so the kid can have it, and pull my desk out into the living room. But to do that I need to remove all the stuff that is in the way. I'll likely have a bunch of clothing to donate before the end of today!
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